Steve Smith wrote: >A symphony can hardly be performed with everyone working remotely....
If you're thinking of a live concert performance, OK. However, the recorded music industry doesn't always, or even very often, operate with every musician in the same room performing at the same time. Frank Swarbrick mentioned a two days per week office schedule. That's an important point. There are many percentages available between 0% and 100% office v. home office work. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. If an employer thinks that face-to-face employee "water cooler" interactions are valuable, OK, but *how* valuable? Can employers capture most or all of that value if employees are working in an office setting, say, every second full week every month and working from home offices otherwise? Yes, probably so. One of the advantages of reducing office desk space is that it "forces" employees who ought to be client-facing to be more client-facing, to spend more and better time with clients. Anyway, there are pros and cons to every work arrangement, but working from home offices >0% of the time often makes business sense. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
